Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 63

BY GEORGE W. WATERS. EALIZATION that the young model aircraft builders of the country are the aviation experts of the future has dawned. Four organizations are sponsoring the movement at present and there are indications that at least two more will join in the campaign to assist the youngsters in their upward climb to heights of experienced aviators. Mr. Bruce Le Gore, president of the Aviation School of America, one of the many in the District who intend to give the model builders a chance to show their wares, annot open to all who wish to enter, will Contest April 5. | The contest will be held April 5 at Hoover Field. Tweaty-five prizes will be awarded. The awards will bé given to the best fiyer in an endurance flight con- test; to the flyer making the most perfect take-off; the best glider model, the best scale model and the model showing the best work- manship. ‘The judges for the contest fol- low: Mr. Le Gore, Maj. Luke Chris- .topher, chairman of the competi- tion committee 'for the National Aeronautical Association; Maj. Harry Horton, president of Con- gressional Airport; Frank Ed- monds, * Walter Hinton, pioneer transatlantic flyer; Capt. Roy Fonke and Lieut. B. H. Merchant, U. 8. Air Corps Reserve. Pendleton Appointed. The junior section of the Dis- trict of Columbia Air Legion is| commencing to show promise of a | suceessful first season, having in- ducted four members during the past'week. John R. Pendleton, ir.. well known local model builder, was appointed the first instructor of the junior section. | Pendleton announces the fol- ! lowing tentative curriculum for| the first class in model building: (1) Kite building and contest. (2) | . Model glider building and contest. (3). Baby R. O. G. building and | contest. (4) Endurance tractor | building and contest. (5) Endur- ance pusher, building and con-| test. (6) . Indoor commercial, | building” and contest. (7) Indoor fuselage model, building and con- test. (8) Flying scale model, building and contest. (9) Outdoor | ships, building and contest, and . (10) Exhibition scale model, build- ing and contest. The: contests at the expiration of each portion of the course will be in the nature of examinations, and eacch junior member will be rated on the performance of his model, prizes being given to those hawving the highest ratings. A grand prize will be given to the member having the highest gen- eral average. Ground Course Promised. After graduating from the model building course, the junior mem- bers will be allowed to take the gliding course, and after com- pletion of that will be allowed to take the legion’s limited commer- cial ground school course. It is the sole aim of the District of Columbia Air Legion, in offer- ing these junior memberships, to make it possible for the boys of Washington to learn enough about aviation to decide whether they wish to follow it as & career. The true scale model econtest: for workmanship was conducted Friday and Saturday at. the United States National Museum, Tenth and B streets, under the auspices of the District of Colum- bia Model Aircraft League, with the co-operation of the Office of Public Buildings and Parks, and unced today that a model contest, be sponsored by his organization. BRUCE LE GORE, With One of the Cups to Be Awarded Model Aircraft Winners. the officials of the National Mu- seum, Nearly 150 Entered. Nearly 150 local boys exhibited their own scale models of famous planes and gliders at this time. The judges of the contest were: Capt. E. E. Adler, Army Air Corps; Lieut. Comdr. A. C. Miles, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. N., and John Chamberlain, director of manual training, District of Columbia public schools. This was the second exhibiton and contest for model planes held under the auspices of the District of Columbia Model Aireraft League, the first having taken THE SuUapax AIRMAIL PICK-UP UNDERGOES TEST P. 0. Official to Report Whether or Not Device Will Be Serviceable. S Following a week of flight demon- strations of the Adams airmail pick-up superintendent of the contract airmail ivision of the Post Office Department, is preparing a report to the department vice will be approved as an accessory to the present airmail service to permit the discharge and picking up of mail by airmail planes at points where land- ing facilities are not available, ‘A series of 150 consecutive “runs” was ordered by the department at Hoover Field so that Mr. Smith might make a check on the number of misses or incompleted deliveries or pick-ups. One hundred of the runs were to com- bine discharge and pick-up of mail sacks, 256 discharges alone and 25 pick- ups alone. Informal Count Shews Averages. ‘While Mr. Smith's report probably will not be made until early this week, an informal count of -ups made during the past five days shows a very ‘high average of successful discharges and pick-ups under weather conditions varying from strong and gusty cross winds to head and tail winds and dead calm and with mail sacks weighing from 5 to 100 pounds. Twice in some 150 operations there were clean misses, owing to gusts of wind sweeping the trailing mail sack |away from the opening to the pick-up chute. In both cases the plane made |a short circle and completed the opera- | tion successfully with the loss of only CHRYSLER MOTORS Flace in the Autumn of 1928, in he Washington Building, when more than 50 boys exhibited their models to constantly increasing crowds of interested and enthusi- astic onlookers. Tools Given Winners. ‘The prizés this year were boxes of model plane builder’s tools to the winner of first place in both junior and senior groups in all 1thl'elel classes, making six awards n all, Each point winner in first, sec- ond or third place of any class of plane, both junior and senior; will be registered.in ‘the District of Columbia League and -will recelve - the. Columbia Model Aircraft League. Harold Snyder, of the Commun- ity Center Department was in charge of the arrangement of planes in the exhibition. HIGH COMBAT FLYING TO BE TRIED BY PILOTS . Members of 95th Pursuit Squadron, California, to Attempt Formation at 25,000-Foot Altitude. Combat fofmation fiying at altitudes of 25,000 feet Will be undertaken at Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calif., by pilots of the 95th Pursuit Squadron, Army Air Corps, which has just taken | delivery of the first five planes of an | order of 90 Boeing 9-12 pursuit planes, | powered with Wasp air-cooled engines | and supercharged for extreme altitude fiying. | Preliminary high altitude work has been in progress for several months | at Rockwell Field, formations of two | . and threée ships having been flown. | Larger formations have been imj o ble because of lack of sufficient p ‘The 95th will be the first pursuit 3 squadron to receive its &ufih of the ° new P-12's, after which veries will ! b2 made to the l1st Pursult Group, ¢ Selfridge Field, Mich., and other pursuit units. One or two of the new ships " will be delivered at Bolling Field later in_the Summer. | The P-12 has a wing span of 30 feet and weighs approximately one ton | with pilot and full military load. These planes have flown from the ground to | 10,000 feet and back in less than five | minutes and have reached maximi altitudes of more than 30,000 feet. The Navy uses an identical type of plane as a fighter, with the addition of : an arresting gear attachment for use in landing aboard the aircraft carriers. INAVAL ACADEMY GETS NEW TRAINING. PLANES Several of the best of the new patrol | ‘Elne types now used py the Navy will | e sent to the Naval Academy, Annapo- lis, Md., for the Spring flying training for midshipmen, according to the plans of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Two PN-12 twin-engined patrol lanes, one F5L flying boat of the old ype, one PN-11 ‘twin-engined patrol lane, the latest type adopted by the avy; one XPB, one OL-8 Loening amphibian, one XPH or XPY, the Con- + solidated twin-engined patrol plane, and possibly one NY-3 are to be provided by the Naval Afrcraft Factory, Philadel- phia, for the training season. Officers of VN Squadron 8, who will be in charge of the training program, | recently visited the Glenn Martin plant | at Baltimore to study the progress of construction of the PM-1 seaplanes now being constructed on order for the Navy. The first PM-1 is to be sent to the Ana- costia Naval Air Station for flight tests this Spring. An aviation congress of the nations ©f the Americas will be held this year in Uruguay in conjunction with the centenary celebration of that republic, according to a report received by the Department of Commerce from the consulate at Montevideo. All outstanding aeronautical subjects of importance will be proposed for col sideration, it was announced. In col nection with the congress it is pre hold an international aero DR. H. L. DRYDEN, 3 Chief of the aere mics 'section of the Bureau of Si rds, who gave the first of a series of lectures on sero- dynamics a few days ago: before the Standards Flying Club, composed of aviation stduents who are employed at the Bureau of Standards. ‘The dates cceeding lectures will be announced B. Henrickson Photo. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INVITED BY AERO CLUB \ Model " - Alrcrnnl sweater emblem of the District of |- Aeronautics Commitnemefi to. Be Guests at Meeting When Glider Films Will Be Shown. Members of congressional committees dealing with military aeronautics will be guests of the Aero Club of Wash- ington Chapter of the National Aero- nautic Association at the monthly luncheon meeting at 12:30 p.m. tomor~ row in the New Willard Hotel. Motion :Ictures showing the.use of liders and the ‘trial flights of the Navy MC-2, the first all-metal dirigible, will be shown. This airship was de- livered to the Navy last September and is to be the forerunner of commercial les. The airship fllm be explalned by C. B. Pritache, president of the Aircraft Deve nt Corporation, which construc the Navy ible. The club has invited members- of the committees on military and naval af- fairs and the appropriations subcom- mittees in charge of appropriations for the military services to attend the luncheon. . New Field Is Established. The Army Air Corps has established an intermediate landing fleld at Mid- r " posed to | Chiplanee, transporte, airerafe mo- ai es, transports, aircraft m tors, aerial:photography, aerology, avia- tion signals and other similar Nulp-[ - ment. land, Tex. enlisted men of the Alr Corps and two'of the Signal will compose the field personnel. field 18 on-s Toute heavily traveled by Alr Corps planes. at Hoover Field, F. E. Smith, assistant | which may determine whether this de- | COUPE ROADSTER (ewith 2-DOOR SEDAN S1AR, 4 moment. On one flight there was a miss in picking up the owing to an improper placement of the cup to which the mail sack to be picked up is fastened and into which a ball on the end of the cable lowered from the airplane is dragged to make the pick-u Pilot Sebree’s Work Lauded, One of the outstanding - features of the week’s demonstrations has been the co tly good flying of Trowbridge Sebree, chief pilot for the Clifford Ball mail and passenger airline, who has flown the New Standard plane used for all the tests. Scores of times he has flown over the device, which from the air looks no larger than a postage stamp, trailing a mall sack at the end of a cable into the opening of the chute. The keenest judgment of height and | wind are necessary to make the con- | tact successfully, even though the plane is “stalled” down to a speed of 80 miles per hour. Only twice in more than 100 | attempts, however, did Sebree miss the |chute and then only when unexpected | gusts of wind caught the trailing mail sack and whirled it away from the chute opening. Fred Streck of the staff of Dr. Lytle | S. Adams, dental surgeon of Seattle, the inventor of the pick-up, operated the reel in the airplane which discharged and received the loads in the cargo | cockpit of the plane. Many Government | officials and members of Congress have | witnessed the tests during the week, NEW RADIO TESTS MADE. Portable Set Is Designed for Air-| craft Communication. ‘Tests have been completed at the Ana- costia Naval Air Station on a new type of portable self-contained field radio set | for use in communicating with aircraft | and permanent stations. | Motive power for the set is furnished |by a small four-cycle gasoline engine | driving a double current generator. The equipment, which may be carried by | truck or aboard transport planes, can be set up readily and used for communi- | cation over the intermediate frequency | WASH1IAGLION, band over ranges up to 100 miles and more. i SEDAN, 3WINDOW, 4DOOR .625 ..... 590 655 65 610 675 65 610 675 65 rumble seat) D. C, MARCH 9 .1 AIRPLANE SERVICE SHOWS PROGRESS U. S.-South America Mail and Passenger Line Covers 13,000 Miles. YsU—bEFARL FOUR, ican Airways Line was made between Key West a Havana Oetober 19, 1927, inaugurating the Post Office De- partment contract foreign alrmail serv- ice over route 4. Service between Miami and Cristobal was inaugurated February 4, 1929, by Col. Lindbergh, and this line was extended to Curacao, Dutch West Indies, June 21 last, and from Trinidad to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, September 23. Operations from Miami to San Juan, Porto Rico, began January 9, 1929, and this line was extended to Trini September 22, connecting there with the coastal route around the Caribbean Sea. On January 2, 1929, operations were begun between Miami and Nassau, Bahamas. During the year which has just been concluded since the inauguration by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh of the first Pan American Airways airmail and passenger line between the United States and South America, the operat- ing system of the company has grown from 261 miles to 13,000 miles,’ connect- ing 26 countries. Col. Lindbergh a year ago this month flew the first plane on scheduled serv- ice over, the route from Miami, F to Cristobal, Canal Zone. ‘Since that time route after route has been added to what is today one of the world’s great- est international air transport s_vstfl'n_!. Today the company is operating 71 airports and over its airways is flying 44 multi-engined transport planes. It has on arflelr the two 1;r|um :n cgm;n:;:i‘:l transport planes ever bu - try lg%. el))tcept for the German DO-X, the largest planes in the world. These are 41-passenger Sikorsky amphibians, each to be powered with four 525- horsepower engines. Pan American Airways is operating 26 ground radio control stations today and is constructing or_has planned 50 additional stations. During the year 10,000 passengers have been flown and 265 tons of airmail carried to and from | the United States over the lines to Mexico, the West Indies, Central Amer- | ica and South Amerjca. It is claimed that 99.64 = cent of all scheduled flights called for under Post Office De- partment contracts have been com- pleted. E : | The first mail flight over a Pan 'Amer- | eAnnounce Overland Route Outlined. Overland service between the United States and Central America began March 10 last when the first flight was made over foreign airmail rcute 8 from Brownsville, Tex., to Mexico City. 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